Top Names, 6/26/2025

Revisiting our core strategy while updating our performance.

Our Core Strategy

Our core strategy is to buy equal dollar amounts of the Portfolio Armor web app’s top ten names, put trailing stops of 15%-20% on them, and replace them with names from the current week’s top ten when we get stopped out of a position.

Another Use For Our Top Names

We also use our top ten names as a source of ideas for options trades, such as this one we entered today.

A Top Names Performance Update

Before we get to this week’s top ten names, let’s look at the final, 6-month performance of our top ten names from December 26th, 2024.

Our top names from December 26th returned -9.63%, on average, over the next six months, versus +1.76% for the SPDR S&P 500 Trust (SPY 0.00%↑).

We had bad luck of the draw on that top ten cohort. Here’s how the top ten names from the next day, December 27th, 20204, have done so far:

So far, we have 6-month returns for 105 weekly top names cohorts since we started this Substack at the end of December, 2022.

And as you can see above, our top names have averaged returns of 16.45% over the next six months, versus SPY’s average of 9.4%. You can see an interactive version of the table above here, where you can click on each date and see a chart showing each of the holdings that week.

This Week’s Top Names

Below are Portfolio Armor’s current top ten names as of Thursday’s close.